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G. F.; A. W. 8a A. L. LAWTON.

SALT.

Patented May 24, 1892.

cHARLzs F. LAWTON,

ALBERT L. LAWTON, ARTHUR w. LA WTON,

//1 Vania-n5,

PATENT, QFF cE.

cuARLEsr. LAWTON, AR'lIlUR w. LAWTON, AND 'ALRER'r L. LAW'FON, or .RocuEsTEar- W YORK. I

IS'ALT. I

srncrrtcnnon forming art of Letters Patent no. 475,577, dated May 24, 1892.

Application filed March 29,1892. sum 170.426.900. (110 specimens.)

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES F. LAWTON, ARTHUR W. LAWTON, and ALBERT L. LAW- TON, citizens of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroeand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Salt, of which the following is a specification. I

Our invention relates to salt, designed for,

pickling meats and fish or for table use; and it consists in a novel form of the same, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of one form of apparatusfo'rproducing, the salt herein described, and Fig. 2 a view representing the form of the salt.

It is a fact well known that salt as generally put upon the market, particularly tablesalt, is hygroscopic-that is to say, it has the property 0f absorbing moisture from the air and caking in the salt-cellars or other receptacles, so as to materially interfere with its ready use at the table. I

In applications serially numbered 380,783 and 416,827 we have described certain meth ods .by means of which we are able to produce as a marketable article table-salt pracn tically non' -hygroscopic, the said methods processes in which.it'hasever'beeu proposed consisting, substantially, in melting or fusing saltin' the presence of a material of an alkaline nature. I In another application, Serial No. 387,259,

we have shown and'described an apparatus by means of which the 'salt produced under the aforesaid processes, or under any other to fuse or melt salt, may be transformed into globules or bodies of globular or spherical form, and it'is to this produce-salt in globu: lar form-that the present invention relates.

In carrying out our inventionwo first reduce the salt by melting or fusing, and then run it into a receptacle B of the apparatus. (Shown in Fig. 1.) 1 From this receptacle B,

which is provided with a valve or'gate' Z and a spout s, the molten salt passes'into .an

projected into the chamber A, which latter will advisably be divided into compartments 0 C 0? 0 0, each of which is provided with a-valve c. The melted or fused salt, which a is .forced'through the atomizer and issues upon a careful examination, be found to contain upon their outer surfaces a crust which appears to be harder than the main hollow body of the globule. I

While we prefer to produce the salt in globular form by means of the apparatus shown, described, and claimed in the applieationl(Serial No. 387,259) to which we have referred, we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to the use of such apparatus or to the method of manufacturing and purifying salt set forth in the other applications above referred to. We contemplate, however, using said processes, as we are not .aware of. any fusion or melting processes other than these by means of which salt has ever been successfully produced.

therefrom in globules of difierent sizes, will,

By making the salt in the form herein- 1- shown anddescri'bed thei'partielesof a gtverr body of salt rolloyer among one another and greatly facilitate its distribution from a saltcellaror. other receptacle, being only nec. essary to-,t1p the salt-cellar and not shake it,

as has heretofore been required with salt'm ade in' the ordinary form.

In salting meat or fish salb'in coarse pieces is generally preferred to fine salt, and for this purpose we make the salfi in globules of larger size than when designed for table use.

No claim is made herein to the apparatus j (Serial N 0. 387,259, filed April 1, 1891 shown for lproducing the described globular salt, nor to t 0 methods (Serial No. 380,783, filed February 9, 1891, and Serial No. 416,827, filed Jan- -m. nary 2, 159.2).refierred totorthepmdnction of;

non-hygroscopic salt.

' Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- 1. As an. improved article of manufacture,

r 5 salt in globular form.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, salt composed of hollow globular; bodies.

I CHARLES 'F. LAWTON. ARTHUR W. LAWTON. I ALBERT L. LAWTON. Witnesses to C. F. Lawtons signaturez.

J AMES OToonn, H. F. BOURBON. v Hamlinesses.tQ.A.,.W,.Lawtonssimature:

M. II. MoM'ATH, W.II.SHAW. Witnesses to A. 'L. Lawtons signature: F. G. FARDON, I

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